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We noted last week that one of Elon's Muskrats, Marko Elez, posted racist remarks to eX-Twitter. One of those remarks was "normalize Indian hate." This got him some bad PR, so he resigned. Then Usha Vance, the vice president's wife, forgave him on behalf of all 1.4 billion Indians and all was well. This enabled Musk to rehire Elez, saying "To err is human, to forgive divine." Since Musk was the one forgiving, this sort of implies that he is some sort of deity, a thought he probably fully endorses. So there is one bad apple in the barrel. Happens.
Ooops, make that two bad apples. Next up is Gavin Kliger—like Elez, a software engineer, and also active on social media. In posts between Oct. 2024 and Jan. 2025, he reposted content from professional misogynist Andrew Tate and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. But he also generated original content as well. For example, after New York City Mayor Eric Adams talked about shutting down a migrant center, he wrote: "Just leave them be for a few more months. Will be much more convenient to deport them all if they are in one spot."
Clearly, Donald Trump and Elon Musk don't care about this kind of behavior, so there's no reason to think that Kliger or Elez will suffer any real consequences for being bigots. Meanwhile, there are still people arguing that Musk—a fellow who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa, who pals around with the far-right and extremist Alternative for Germany, who performs Nazi salutes, and who seems to enjoy hiring racist underlings—has not been proven to be a racist. We think these folks do not understand what "proven" means. (V)